Stevens brings 17 years of experience with DNR programs as general counsel for the Wisconsin Builders Association, counsel for the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association and environmental policy director for Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.

Schimel has intentionally removed a strong public voice which, on behalf of the WMC and the Koch brothers and the oil pipeline owners and the industrial-scale feedlot operators and traded it for another corporate insider - - and aren't there enough of them now in the Governor's office, the DNR, the Natural Resources Board, the Public Service Commission, the State Supreme Court, and on and on and on.

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Tom Dawson, his fellow public intervenor Peter Peshek, later joined by Kathleen Falk and Wally Arts, taught me what made me proud of Wisconsin as an environmental leader. That was a long time ago, and it's sad to see the last of the soldiers who fought within the system -- along with allies like Peter Anderson and Jim Derouin -- depart the scene. Shame on Brad Schimel and his band of jackals.

They are stacking our state government with people who favor business over the well being of the public, and that stinks. It is definitely the Koch/ALEC plans in action. I hope all of the people who voted these guys into office will be happy with their polluted waters, lands, and air. By the time they realize they made a serious mistake, it will be too late to correct it because their learning curve is very very long and time consuming.

I cannot believe all of the intelligent hardworking people this state has lost because of Scott Walker and the Republicans. It is a crying shame.

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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.

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James Rowen, a writer and consultant, has worked for newspapers, and as the senior Mayoral staffer, in Madison and Milwaukee, WI. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007. Posts run also at various news sites, including The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "Purple Wisconsin."